World Cup: Four Nations Tournament-Team Canada

Voight

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Feb 8, 2012
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I think this is fair. If you look up and down the Canadian lineup you see players that have elevated their games at crunch time and are winners. The U.S. lacks that, which is why I think they may include a guy like Patrick Kane even though his best days are behind him. Talent-wise, the U.S. is right there though.

Kane's also still a good offensive player even at his age, plus I think they wanna give him the chance to captain Team USA before his careers over.
 

Dominance

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Seeing names like Barzal, Marchand, Stamkos - much less Nurse, what the f*** is that? - is sickening. There will be zero chemistry or wind-down going into this tournament from regular games, so the brass had better not f*** this up by doing anything other than taking the hot hand.

Hagel-McDavid-Reinhart
Point-MacKinnon-Marner
Scheifele-Crosby-Stone
Bennett-Suzuki-Konecny
Thomas/Lafreniere/Bedard

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Pietrangelo
Theodore-Dobson
Power/Bouchard, Parayko/Weegar

Binnington
Hofer
Talbot

A ton of Americans are significantly underperforming to date this season - guys like Matthews, Hughes, Robertson. That helps too as the Swedes and Finns look weak.
 

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